[Letter to] Miss Deborah Weston
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Fort Ramsay, Camp at Upton's Hill, Virginia
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

In this letter, Augustus Hesse describes camp life during the Civil War. He tells about his living quarters and his daily routine. He describes the ruined and desecrated churches in Falls Church. Major General S. P. Heintzelman commands the troops in winter quarters at Fort Ramsay. Upton Hill is the headquarters of Brig. General Kerney(?). Major General Abercrombie praised Augustus Hesse's battery. In the postscript, Augustus Hesse tells of the Christmas dinner sent by Mrs. Faile of Washington and talking to the wounded soldiers who returned from Fredericksburg.